KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization

Mingbo Song; Heming Xia; Jun Zhang; Chak Tou Leong; Qiancheng Xu; Wenjie Li; Sujian Li (李素建)

KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization

Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang, Chak Tou Leong, Qiancheng Xu, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li

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Cite (ACL):: Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang, Chak Tou Leong, Qiancheng Xu, Wenjie Li, and Sujian Li. 2026. KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pages 641–655, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.31/) (Song et al., Findings 2026)

KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization (Song et al., Findings 2026)

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Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang, Chak Tou Leong, Qiancheng Xu, Wenjie Li, and Sujian Li. 2026. KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, pages 641–655, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.